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- 2501: Antigone: Creon
- ... must die. She is to be sealed up in a deserted cave outside the city and will be given a small supply of food so that Thebes will not incur the blood-guilt for the death. Comment Haimon expresses an important Greek concept here. Generally, the Greeks thought that all justice should be tempered with a certain amount of mercy and compassion. Haimon attempts to advise his father. But now we ... ghosts underground: And I shall see my father again, and you, mother, And dearest Polyneices- To me, since it was my hand That washed him clean and poured the ritual wine: And my reward is death before my time! Creon enters, remarks that lamentations are no help to anyone and orders the soldiers to carry out the sentence. The guards lead Antigone away. Fifth scene: Summary The blind prophet Teiresias comes ... false prophecy for personal gain and refuses to heed the warning. The seer predicts that if Creon does not end the desecration of the corpse and pardon Antigone, the Gods will take vengeance by the death of his own son and the city will be defiled. Having said this, Teiresias turns and leaves. Torn between what he believes to be right and fear of the horrible fate foretold by the ...
- 2502: Hamlet: The Tragic Hero
- ... play one. Probably the most important element is an amount of free will. In every tragedy, the characters must displays some. If every action is controlled by a hero's destiny, then the hero's death can't be avoided, and in a tragedy the sad part is that it could. Hamlet's death could have been avoided many times. Hamlet had many opportunities to kill Claudius, but did not take advantage of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose not ... bravery, but one bad one such as pride. Also the audience must have sympathy for the hero. A tragic hero also must have free will or his fate would be decided for him, and his death could be avoided. Finally, the audience must have sympathy for the tragic hero, or it wouldn't seem so tragic. Hamlet is a perfect example of a tragic hero. He was brave, loyal, and ...
- 2503: The Great Gatsby 3
- Death of a Salesman and the American Dream Most people in America acknowledge that there are certain standards they are expected to live up to. For many, this is a wonderful and dignified belief. Although, in ... one is by Howard Fuller entitled "A salesman is Everybody" and another by Harold Clurman entitled "The Success Dream on the American Stage." Both essays state opinions about the American Dream and its relation to Death of a Salesman in which the main character, Willy Loman, lives by his own ideal, which in the end causes his downfall. Willy's life revolves around chasing his ideal of the American dream rather ... his deficiency in finding success in his life, and why he fails to live out his American dream. Willy Loman has lived his life in a quest for the American dream. Harold Clurman states that, "Death of a Salesman is a challenge to the American dream." "The American dream has become distorted to the dream of business success." Willy Loman is looking for an easy way to become rich and ...
- 2504: Mozart 2
- ... Its plot, a fairy tale combined with strong Masonic elements (Mozart was a devoted Freemason), is bizarre, but drew from Mozart some of his greatest music. When produced in 1791, two months before Mozart's death, the opera survived an initially cool reception and gradually won audiences over. The year 1788 saw the composition of Mozart's two finest symphonies. Symphony No.40, in the tragic key of G minor, contrasts ... the Requiem. He became ill in autumn 1791 and died on December 5; his burial the next day was attended only by a gravedigger. Rumours that Mozart had been poisoned abounded in Vienna after his death, many suggesting that rival composer Antonio Salieri was responsible. Many now believe a heart weakened by bouts of rheumatic fever caused his death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in January of 1756. By the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a ...
- 2505: Araby By James Joyce And A Sun
- ... what he felt for her. However the boy’s joy for nature in “A Sunrise On The Veld” probably did not go away even after witnessing the buck being devoured by ants. He learned about death and that existence is finite.There is a difference also, in the sources of the characters’ pain. One felt and empathized with a buck’s suffering and the other boy felt his own pain from ... depressing. The character lived in a run down district where street gangs existed. It was the winter season and street lamps were weak which gave additional images of darkness. These examples suggested images of decay, death and imprisonment. There was an opposing image that existed in the form of the his friend’s older sister and the bazaar in Araby. This gave images of escape and hope as well as opposing ... theatmosphere became depressing. There was suffering, sickness and anger. There was a sense of the shortness of time and the character realized that he too was mortal. He got a fore taste of his own death and the idea that he too will die one day. There was a contrast between the beauty of the surroundings and the newness of the earlymorning and the death of the buck; it stood ...
- 2506: Catch 22: Satire on WWII
- ... also the deadly inhuman bureaucracy of the military-economic establishment which clams to be a stay against chaos while it threatens human life more insidiously then battle itself. Heller also questions the need for the death and carnage throughout the novel asking if it is really necessary. Many other institutions are also satirized in Catch-22. Bryant points out the extreme variety of institutions that Heller satirizes with this "His satire ... duty you cannot. The reason for this is that if you believe you are insane and want to be removed from duty you must be sane because you don't want to fight, hence risking death, any more. Olderman wrote about the catch saying this " Catch-22 is the principle that informs the military-economic machine, giving it power and making war possible in the first place . . . the illogical must be ... will not be removed from his former tent, and also all of the enlisted men speak of him throughout the book. Dr. Peek also points out one further ironic highlight in the novel, McWatt's death. He believes that McWatt's death is ironic because McWatt had no malice yet he was violently killed (Peek 24). Good as Gold also has a certain element of irony although it is less ...
- 2507: Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military
- ... the army, and strengthen the discipline. He would implement these ideas in Hsiaochan, where he concentrated on the development of professionalism and discipline in his troops. This meant creating and enforcing strict rules such as death for theft, rape, rioting, and desertion (Ch’en, p. 35). Yuan was able to equip his men with mostly foreign goods. They had items like “arms, tools, tunics, boots, canvas tents, raincoats, blankets, field glasses ... Palace to the imperial palace and regain control of the country and begin her “second regency.” After this K’ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao escaped, but other reformers were put to death and the reforms of the examination system were reversed. Four days later Jung-lu was called to the palace, and Yuan was given another role in the government. His new role was viceroyalty and commissionership, but this would only last three days until Yu-lu took over these roles. After losing this the empress rewarded him by making him her henchman until her death in 1908 (Ch’en, p. 43). Yuan would gain control of the country in 1912 and rule until his death in 1916. Through this time he would untie China and use the army he ...
- 2508: An Occurance At Owl Creek Brid
- ... do. Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a perfect example of the power of the will to live. It is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by asphyxiation. He thinks to himself “If I could free my hands, I might throw off my noose and spring into the stream...By diving I could evade the bullets and swimming vigorously, reach the ... the man with whom he was conversing headed north. After Farquhar was captured by the Federal soldiers, he was dragged onto the bridge and a noose tied around his neck. In the moments before his death he imagined that he escaped. We don’t know how long that he waited there for his execution, but is time a measurable entity as scientists would have us believe, or is it a human ... exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived.” His mind went into a state of nirvana. He was at peace with himself. His perception of reality was altered. Before his death he saw and perceived more than he ever did in his life. Up until the last nanoseconds of Peyton Farquhar’s execution, he thought of an escape in which he makes it home to ...
- 2509: 1920s And 1930s With Reference
- ... by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the attitudes of disillusionment and isolation are seen in Americans are a direct outcome of the weakening of societies moral codes, and the death of the “American Dream.” The effect of the war on the general population was one of discontent and isolationary feelings towards the countries that had caused them to see the cracks within their dream of ... he began to write The Sun Also Rises. The book was based on his experiences in Pampolona, Spain. He also wrote other books such as Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and Death in the Afternoon. A common theme throughout Hemingway's stories is that no matter how hard we fight to live, we end up defeated, but we are here and we must go on. Hemingway also ... to get what they want. Later, in the scene at the hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." (Fitzgerald 151) He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns home. Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and done ...
- 2510: My Antonia and Heartland: An Analysis
- ... on the frontier were made based on practicality and/or necessity. The film Heartland showed an unromantic and raw view of what frontier life was like, wrought with hunger, harsh weather conditions, economic failure, and death. The film depicts marriage in an interesting light. It is an act of practicality, not one of love. When the two characters in Heartland marry the man regards it as an investment, something he can ... profit from. It shows that people were not concerned with the extras of life, but rather the bare necessities. One of the hardest losses portrayed in the film was that of the mother and the death of her son. The scene when she is hanging up the laundry outside and she breaks down and screams at the top of her lungs is a prime example of the pain and anguish that ... on the frontier were made based on practicality and/or necessity. The film Heartland showed an unromantic and raw view of what frontier life was like, wrought with hunger, harsh weather conditions, economic failure, and death. The film depicts marriage in an interesting light. It is an act of practicality, not one of love. When the two characters in Heartland marry the man regards it as an investment, something he ...
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